BILL NUMBER: ACR 132	CHAPTERED  08/30/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   119
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 30, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 23, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 13, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 25, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 1, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Firebaugh
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Leach and Torlakson)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 132--Relative to California
Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 132, Firebaugh.  California Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline.
   This measure would urge the State Air Resources Board to conduct
public hearings in the Los Angeles Air Basin and in the San Francisco
East Bay Area to discuss the impacts that the California Phase 3
Reformulated Gasoline regulations may have on air quality, public
health, and on the price and supply of gasoline, and to receive
public input regarding the proposed regulations.




   WHEREAS, The Governor's Executive Order D-5-99 requires the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in
consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to phase out the
fuel additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) from the state's
gasoline supply; and
   WHEREAS, California's current formula for gasoline, California
Phase 2 Reformulated Gasoline, was mandated to improve air quality
and has reduced the amount of pollutants present in the air from
motor vehicle emissions by 3.2 million pounds per day; and
   WHEREAS, In order to improve California's air quality, it may be
necessary for gasoline to contain some additives, and the State Air
Resources Board should be made aware of the potential impact of these
additives on the environment, gasoline supply, transportation
safety, highway safety, and consumer cost; and
   WHEREAS, California's largest cities often bear the burden of
negative environmental and cost impacts associated with gasoline and
motor vehicle emissions, including increased emissions on inner-city
freeways, and higher fuel costs to lower income urban citizens; and
   WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board has not scheduled public
hearings to discuss the California Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline
regulations in the Los Angeles Air Basin or in the San Francisco East
Bay Area where air quality would be most affected and the health
dangers from air pollution are already severe; and
   WHEREAS, The public has a right to discuss the impact of these new
regulations with public officials, and the State Air Resources Board
has a responsibility to provide adequate information regarding
potential threats to public health and significant increases in the
cost of gasoline; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature urges the State Air
Resources Board to conduct public hearings in the Los Angeles Air
Basin and in the San Francisco East Bay Area to discuss the impacts
that the California Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline regulations may
have on air quality, public health, and on the price and supply of
gasoline in California, and to receive public input on the
regulations, including input from ethnic communities; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit a copy of
this resolution to each member of the State Air Resources Board.
